#Making jaron look like a creep are we

[demon-blood-youths]

So to the guys and others, how did you guys feel when hearing what Mineta did. And how did you guys feel or would have done. Second is this true?

"........" Navarro twitched an eye. Shdwkyz sees this and sighs. "Well for one, I am merely disgusted. Out of the criminals I hunted down, Mineta is a slippery one, and not only that....it makes me wonder how in the world he enrolled at a hero school. Although...it's a good thing that some handed down a punishment on him. But it doesn't stop him in the slightest..."

"Freaking little..." Rust growled. "I hate that guy! He messed with Breezy and took her underwear! Like what the fuck!?"

"I almost want to put cameras at the hallways which I hate because I don't want to make our places into a prison!" Fosh sighed. "That guy...managed to slip through my security cams!" He cried, looking ashamed of himself of not protecting Mouse from Mineta. He felt like a failure. Gerald pats his back.

"Hmmmm" Gerald frowns, looking conflicted because Mineta is a pro-hero but still... "I heard what big brother Yuji did to him because Taz and her friends got touch bad. It's not okay! Heroes don't do that!"

Joshua nods in agreement with his male members; Robert and Angel. "It wasn't cool when Mineta got Ashely's underwater....I-I don't know what to do. I-I was...so angry." Joshua said. Fin groans, "That fucker also messed with our Lupin girls! Every time, we track him. We always found the panties he leaves behind." The lycan shuddered.

"Yeah." Gin interjects, "I didn't like what he did to my fraction. It wasn't cool and I had to hold Champion back. If anything...." Guam adds. "Jaron is more mad than most of you guys."

"Uhhhh...." The males of the DBT look over to Jaron who is still smiling and beaming, holding a cup of coffee but his smile is twitching making the boys nervous. "Ya know? I don't blame him." Said Rust.

The boys sighed.

"UGH! We gotta do something! I won't let that damn pervert to get away with this! HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!" Navarro shouted, tussling his own hair.

"So what we are going to do?!" Fin asked.

"Yeah man. Ya got a plan, Navarro?" Rus said.

"Simple! I call the boys up." Navarro said.

"The boys?" Guam questioned, not getting it.

"Ink's harem!" "Yeah no. You're not going to call them to catch some creep like Mineta and waste their time." Shdwkyz scowls. Navarro retorts, "Are you kidding me, Shdwkyz?! I bet my ass Bakugo told the rest what that little shit and now they're hunting his ass down! Can you imagine hearing that some creep stole Ink's panties, got away with it, and did god knows what with it?!"

The boys don't want to imagine, their faces look to be faulted and almost want to gag at the creepiness of all.

"I don't want to imagine it at all..." Joshua looking a bit sick.

"I wonder what Horrors would do to him if he tries that shit with them," Fin added.

"Probably traumatic scarring," Shdwkyz said.

@the-silver-peahen-residence

[thebatrodenused]

I wonder how many people think jaron is a creep because of some of the things hes done in his life

Example a, imogen acting like they did the nasty in the runaway king to get jaron out of trouble-

Poor jaron, people really think the worst of him, huh?

[guu]

dear future spiral,

a letter for my own reference once i’m not with charles anymore

hey dude! it’s me, you! with an important list of reminders from the past that you cannot forget, okay? so if you’re feeling scared, lonely, questioning your decision to leave, please read this over.

if you’re finding yourself wishing you had charles around, be it for emotional or practical support, i’m here to tell you right here and now on this sunny day of april 27th, 2020, that you need to take off those rose tinted glasses.

we both knew that leaving would mean you’d eventually start to glorify charles at least a bit since this is a HUGE step. (and forward, mind you!)

you’ve entered more than a new chapter in your life; you’re in a completely different story arc, and i’m so fucking proud of you. i’m scared rn about making the change, but look at you; you DID it!! absolute mad lad.

and lemme tell ya, this morning was the one rare time you asked charles if he would take the morning hours and let you sleep in a tad bit. he did respond the night before sweetly, saying ��of course love’. now lemme remind ya that this morning he responded to ur prodding and calling out to with a resounding fucking nothing. he opened his eyes as u sighed and got up, no doubt stayed up too late playing with jaron. fucking. videos gaem.

anywho!! i AM rambling! let’s get to this sweet list of reminders you need:

first off, you don’t miss having charles’ help. you miss the idea that he may have potentially helped you, but i can say that he barely fucking did, alright? it was drops in the barrel, no, no even that. more accurate to say that every once in awhile when you were completely overwhelmed he would bring a bucket over to the barrel and toss the water out over it, and it’d splash EVERYWHERE, and well, yeah SOME of that water would land in the barrel.

his help quite often left cleanup work, came too late, and made u wish u just did it urself, and you learned to just do it urself. because we knew better.

he’d bitch and moan and groan when we asked him to do things after getting upset when he’d sit on his ass for hours, we’d bring it up again and he’d say ‘oh i forgot’ or ‘yeah yeah i already said i’d do it’ remember that? haha

“oh his cooking was so good...” bitch.... so is urs. u absorbed all his best recipes, u know how to read a recipe now. ur fine.

‘but muh anxiety... he was rly dependable to get things done for me’

no, no sweetheart please... he wasn’t. you really wanted him to be a wall you could lean on, but he wasn’t. any good he did for you did not outweight the bad.

don’t fondly remember that day you came home from work and collapsed on the floor from exhaustion and he came over, took off your shoes, and helped you into bed.

remember those heated “arguments”

notice the p..it’s early the air quotes w/e.

they were always so fucking one sided bc of how stubborn he was that he broke you every time. drove u insane and deeper and deeper into depression.

yes, it was 11 years of ur life u spent together. 11 years in hell bc we didn’t get out sooner. we shared a lot together, we shared our lives, we knew everything abt each other.

he knew how badly u needed to be who you are, a man, and forced you away from it.

i doubt i need to remind u of the real early stuff like how he slowly isolated u from all ur friends when u were pregnant with xander at the ripe young age of fucking seventeen. the 20 yr old creep. yes honey, the gap mattered okay? it was still messed up even if it felt like we were close enough in age u couldnt blame him.

he graduated highschool (and remember he was held back a year) and the next year that fucking sad sack creep picked u up after school, this lil 16 year old, and he shoved you in an evening dress, smeared lipstick on u, and made you a mother before u were ready.

you pulled it off, we love our kids!! yeah!! but don’t let that make u forget that this was poison from the beginning. and it didn’t get better. he just changed in which ways he was awful.

let’s bust out a classic. look at this photograph

aww so sweet! that was a lovely day :)

it was Not. a lovely day. you two traveled behind brooke around the park for the photoshoot while he chewed you out. the whole fucking time. in between photos. he was bitter and pissy. he was a slimy 20 year old scolding you for not being mature enough. i canNOT stress that enough!

now then,

remember all the late bills? all the times geoff came over talking abt back rent bc charles was lazy on payments and never shared the financial shit with u cause he didn’t kno how to do it without stressing u out like mad? remember all the stupid shit he burned money on? it was way more than the 1k gacha, that’s just. that’s just the stupidest.

remember how messy he’d let the house get. bc he wouldn’t be proactive and help u clean. it had to be a giant sweep like, once a month, and he would act so exhausted awaiting ur praise. he’s a fucking SLOB...

boy, idk what else to put here but i think i’ve done a good job for ya. thinkin abt all this stuff while i still have to deal with it is a god damn headache.

i can’t wait to be you.

i’m really fucking proud of you. thank you. thank you. thank you.

thank you.

with endless love,

past spiral

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A Collision Course: AI Marketing People and Process

A Collision Course: AI Marketing, People and Process

In many cases, AI marketing continues to obscure reality.

What is artificial intelligence? Is a smart speaker truly intelligent? And what makes a factory, building, or even a home for that matter smart?

As for the first question, there are three key pieces, said Marcia Walker, principal consultant at SAS. “AI can learn from experience, adjust to new inputs, and accomplish tasks without manual intervention,” Walker said.

The term AI itself dates back to at least 1955, when four researchers, two hailing from academia and two from industry, proposed a research project to investigate the thesis that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it.”

If people must be present to continually fine-tune a program’s algorithm, it, therefore, cannot be said to possess artificial intelligence in the classical sense of the term. Yet AI marketing often uses the phrase in ways that are more artificial than intelligent. “Many times, I think the term ‘artificial intelligence’ is aspirational,” Walker said.

  Smart in Name Only?

Is a smart speaker, which has become the prototypical smart home device, an example of artificial intelligence? Alas, no. At least not in the case of Amazon Alexa, which, according to Bloomberg, relies on a global team of thousands of people to listen to voice commands and help them fine-tune the assistant’s responses to specific queries in the future.

While Amazon describes Alexa as living “in the cloud” and “always getting smarter,” the voice assistant’s improved accuracy in understanding voice commands is at least partly a byproduct of manual intervention over time.

While the specific details about Alexa’s inner workings were new, that hasn’t stopped users from lamenting in recent years that the “smart speaker” didn’t live up to its name. “Amazon’s Alexa isn’t the future of AI — it’s a glorified radio clock,” wrote Quartz writer Alexander Aciman in 2017. Gartner observed in its AI Hype Cycle report last year that the majority of conversational user interfaces, of which smart speakers are an example, remain “primitive, and thus are not able to respond to complex queries.”

Conversational user interfaces such as smart speakers also represent a continuing blurring of the lines between the Internet of Things, which is a broad technology trend that has received its own share of hype, and artificial intelligence, a word often applied undeservedly.

Of course, voice assistants, including Alexa, have improved steadily over the years. The venture capital firm Loup Ventures asked prominent smart speakers hundreds of queries and found, in December 2018, that Alexa correctly answered 72.5% of the time, its accuracy improved 9% compared to 12 months prior. By comparison, Google Home had an accuracy rate of 87.9% in December 2018.

While a firm scientific definition of intelligence, or even consciousness or thought, may be elusive, smart speakers won’t be passing the Turing test any time soon. And while the smart speaker is but one example, it is a convenient microcosm reflecting the gap between AI marketing and reality.

  Looking for the “Invisible Hand of God”

While smart speakers may be an example of a technology that trails our expectations for intelligence, there is also a fear AI will have significant negative effects on at least some of humanity. While AI’s threat to automate jobs is likely the greatest social fear, Hollywood and a handful of public figures helped make the threat of an AI takeover famous, theorizing that advanced artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to society. The fact of the matter is: researchers widely disagree on when and if AI can develop an intelligence level matching or superseding human intelligence at large.

The computer scientist and AI researcher Jaron Lanier takes something of the opposite viewpoint. “The machines don’t mean a thing. They are barely even there without us,” Lanier said in one interview. “In order to support the fantasy of some kind of pure AI or freestanding AI, we are telling the people [who] supply the absolutely necessary data, that they are not needed.”  

While analytics is fundamental to artificial intelligence, Walker said “I would argue the real base is intelligence, period. If we are going to talk about AI, we have to decide what is real intelligence.”

Critics have long accused tech companies of misrepresenting systems reliant on human input as artificial intelligence, but obscuring that fact. Some chess fans alleged as much after the 1997 victory of IBM’s Deep Blue chess engine over champion Garry Kasparov. Grandmasters Miguel Illescas, John Fedorowicz and Nick de Firmian helped provide Deep Blue with a database of openings and thousands of board configurations and hundreds of thousands of grandmaster games.

Kasparov won the first game in 45 moves. Before the second game, IBM enlisted an additional grandmaster, Joel Benjamin, to help hone the chess engine, which was allowed under the rules. Kasparov lost the next round, even though the engine, at one point, made an apparent blunder. Kasparov accused IBM of manually intervening during the game, which the rules forbade. 

Referring to the famous human-machine matchup in a 2014 NPR interview, chess author Mig Greengard sympathized with Kasparov’s 1997 suspicions: “How could something play like God, then play like an idiot in the same game?” After the loss in the second game, Kasparov requested a summary of moves from Deep Blue’s recent games. He was denied access, although the Deep Blue team had access to hundreds of Kasparov’s games.

Deep Blue ultimately triumphed over Kasparov in game six of the match. While initially accusing IBM of cheating, he eventually accepted the chess engine’s superiority. “Deep Blue was intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better,” The Financial Times quotes him as saying. As for Deep Blue’s unwise move in the second game, IBM research scientist Murray Campbell explained it was a random glitch.

For IBM, Deep Blue was arguably its clearest AI marketing win until its Watson computer won Jeopardy in 2011. A number of chess buffs, however, continue to question Deep Blue’s victory, questioning the extent of human involvement in achieving that milestone. “They wonder if there was a sort of an ‘Invisible Hand of God,’ so to speak,” said Zulfikar Ramzan, chief technology officer or RSA, comparing the matchup to the controversial ‘Hand of God’ goal in the 1986 FIFA World Cup when Argentina defeated England. In that goal, the ball bounced off of Diego Maradona’s hand beforehand. A referee said he didn’t see the infringement.

The 1997 chess match between Kasparov and Deep Blue could have established a scientific precedent for artificial intelligence, but it didn’t. “We lost the opportunity to understand whether there was something novel about how chess was being played and whether you could apply these types of [computing] techniques to problems previously thought you couldn’t apply them to,” Ramzan said. “For a long time, people thought chess required human intuition.” But the collaboration between grandmasters and computer scientists over the years has resulted in even free chess engines such as Stockfish with scores considerably higher than those of the top-ranked human players of all time.

A game engine from Google known as AlphaGo also defeated a human in 1997, which was another game where at least some experts felt humans had the upper hand. “It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer,” Piet Hut, Ph.D. an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study told The New York Times in 1997. “If a reasonably intelligent person learned to play Go, in a few months he could beat all existing computer programs. You don’t have to be a Kasparov.”

  Enough With the Games

But deploying artificial intelligence or related techniques such as machine learning, deep learning, and analytics to thorny real-world problems — for instance, predicting when complex machines will fail or how to make health care or a cluster of factories more efficient — can still be challenging. “Oftentimes, it’s not just a matter of deploying a technique to help solve a problem, but understanding the domain and all of the context around it,” Ramzan said. Hidden biases can also creep into algorithms, or they could be sabotaged by ill-willed humans.

The clear victories of AI-themed demonstrations such as Deep Blue’s victory in chess, AlphaGo’s victory in Go, and broader applications of machine learning to solve concrete specified problems helped fuel the imaginations of marketers promising their software can revolutionize any company’s business. Attending a trade show dedicated to the industrial sector highlights the sheer number of companies promising to help any company revolutionize your business with AI and other cutting edge technologies. “There’s a flurry of buzzwords that don’t mean anything,” said Saar Yoskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Augury, which uses a combination of hardware and algorithms to monitor the health of industrial machinery.

While the promise of implementing techniques like machine learning to drive transformation within industrial environments are well-founded, Yoskovitz laments many general industrial techniques used in the sector are old-fashioned. “The tools haven’t changed since the 1980s in some cases,”  Yoskovitz said. “There are flip charts, and maybe an earpiece system where you can log maintenance.”

Part of the challenge is that while leading industrial companies have experience in analytics, machine learning, and so forth, those techniques haven’t historically been a core focus. “They tend to be really good at making equipment to run big industrial processes, but that’s a different skill set than understanding big data and what it takes to do true advanced analytics,” Walker said. “It’s a parallel world.” In general, industrial companies pursuing projects under the artificial intelligence umbrella may struggle with basics such as preparing data for analytics.

A gradual change is underway, however, toward software-as-a-service applications that could potentially change how industrial environments are managed. “It should — I say should because it is not yet — be truly revolutionary,” Yoskovitz added. But in order to drive such a transformation, and to unleash the potential of AI, ML, and related techniques, requires changes to people and process. “I’ll give you one example of this from the software world. Look at what happened to sales organizations in the past decade,” Yoskovitz said. “It used to be that people looked at quarterly revenues. And today, you would call that a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator.”  SaaS for sales staff made it simpler to track how many phone calls sales reps make along with their conversion rates. Sales professionals can use that information to “tweak their messaging because whatever change we make today will affect revenue in six months,” Yoskovitz said. “So how do we, very similarly, in our industry go from lagging indicators — uptime, for instance, is a lagging indicator — to leading indicators?”

Organizations that can come up with firm answers to such questions, matched with a careful application of technologies will find themselves ahead of the vast majority of the competition. Doing so requires aligning the three elements of the people, process, and technology framework. Walker concluded: “And I think, for us to be really successful at AI, we also have to be really successful at looking at what it means to be human.”

  Written by Brian Buntz of IOT World Today

https://www.iotworldtoday.com/2019/05/02/a-collision-course-ai-marketing-people-and-process/

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The Future of Virtual Reality Smells Like Dirt

Virtual reality is either the future or totally dead, it just depends on who you ask. The aromas wafting through the Tribeca Film Festival's VR Arcade, however, don't smell like a decomposing industry—they smell like the grasslands of Africa, the Amazon rainforest, and California redwoods.

Three films incorporate smell into their virtual reality experience with surprising success: Kathryn Bigelow and Imraan Ismail's The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger's Shoes, Milica Zec and Winslow Porter's Tree, and Marshmallow Laser Feast's TREEHUGGER: WAWONA. Each used props and set pieces to get viewers in the mood, then deployed the smells to trigger a level of immersion you don't see—or smell—in your average Google Cardboard or Oculus Rift experience.

The Protectors. Courtesy Tribeca Film Festival

Bigelow and Ismail's setup for The Protectors is the most elaborate, and the most passive. They seem to have transplanted an entire clearing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Garamba National Park, where the film was shot, directly into the festival's Spring Studios headquarters. I take a deep breath in through my nose, and a PA working the booth tells me he sprayed the bushes with an odor designed evoke the landscape in the film.

I continue to notice the smell as I don the headset and find myself in an African savannah. A small team of filmmakers embedded with the drastically underfunded park rangers who protect the park's less than 1,300 remaining elephants, down from 20,000 in the 1960s. Poachers hunt the massive mammals—whom research indicates are as smart as chimpanzees, capable of empathy, and posses a sense of self—to harvest their tusks and genitals.

The film is heartbreaking, particularly in moments that showcase evidence of what the poachers have done. In one scene, I walk into a room that is stacked with elephant tusks, each pair representing a death. Many are devastatingly small. In another I'm walking with the rangers through tall grass and we come upon the carcass of an elephant. A ranger named Tomasi leans down and gazes at the beast's mutilated head, swarming with flies. Despite myself I'm grateful that scent technology isn't too accurate—yet.

National Geographic

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has asserted that elephant poaching is linked to terrorism, crashed The Protectors panel on April 21 as a surprise guest. "We can provide support for the rangers, provide better equipment, work with organizations like African Parks, work with willing countries that take wildlife protections seriously, and you can make a little bit of progress," she said. At the end of the VR film is a call to action advocating for donations to outfitaranger.org.

I visit the New York premiere of Milica Zec and Winslow Porter's Tree and pivot from animal rights to climate change. I slip into the VR headset, phones, and a haptic backpack, which rumbles every time I—as the seed of a tree in the Amazon rainforest—stretch and grow upwards.

An attendant wafts a pressurized container of pure earthiness toward me as I wiggle through a hole in the soil and slowly creep toward the sky. I observe fluttering birds, scurrying insects, and monkey shenanigans before bursting through the canopy and gazing at a startlingly beautiful sunset. As I cope with vertigo, I notice smoke in the distance. 

Darkness sets in, until a warm orange light begins leaking from the ground below. A recent study in Nature indicates that climate change, combined with eco-systems fragmented by logging, makes trees more likely to dry out and catch fire. From the tree's perspective, I experience that process in action.

Courtesy Tribeca Film Festival

Tree is Zec and Porter's follow up to award-winning VR film Giant, in which you're a fly on the wall as a family hides from a bombing in their basement. The film is based on Zec's own experience growing up in Serbia—then Yugoslavia—during NATO's military operations against the country. Similarly to Giant, Zec and Winslow flip the script in Tree, transforming the viewer from an aggressor in the systemic problem of climate change into the victim. Smell sets the stage for this mental shift, like noticing the smell of a new city after leaving the sanitized atmosphere of an airport.

"Virtual reality at its core is just a way to transform a person or place through a reappropriation of senses," Porter tells Creators. "Tapping into other senses can unlock a whole new level of immersion. Part of us knows it's not real and another part really wants to believe."

The most advanced use of smell technology comes from another bid for environmental activism, Marshmallow Laser Feast's Treehugger: Wawona. We've seen MLF evolve from animation to immersive installation, and now they're focusing on banging out innovative and thoughtful VR experiences, like one of the first 360° animated music videos and a mixed reality dining experience. That progression has led them to create a VR dramatization of a water droplet making its way from the root of a sequoia to the top.

While this sounds similar to Tree, the experience is entirely different. I'm encouraged to walk around a giant sculpture that looks like a matte black cross-section of a tree. Once I'm encased the HTC Vive headset and accompanying glove-mounted sensors, it blossoms into a river of light and color shooting up from the ground. Both the installation and the digital structure are modeled on LIDAR, white light, and CT scans captured and processed by artist Natan Sinigaglia and researchers at London's Natural History Museum and Salford University. Music composed by Mileece I'Anson parsing data about the tree's circulatory system sets chill vibes as I move toward the tree.

I notice a scent that reminds me of freshly fallen leaves and morning mist. It's pouring into my nose through a device mounted on the headset. A nearby worker tells me it's a complex gadget that can shuffle through multiple aromas, like shuffling songs on Spotify. Instead of a one-film, one-smell situation, it could adapt many sensory experiences within a single film. Imagine walking through the door to a house, and all of a sudden smelling fresh pie baking. This seems like a big deal, but the representative I was talking to was hush hush about the technology. In any case, I know the future when I smell it, and it's fascinating.

Smell came up last year when I spoke to Chris Milk, who has his hands in multiple projects at the Tribeca VR Arcade. He's the founder of Within and Here Be Dragons, a prolific VR filmmaker, popularized then surpassed the term, "empathy machine," and prefers not to be called the VR guy ("Jaron Lanier is the VR guy," he insists).

We talked about the future of virtual reality in a broad sense, and Milk hyped me up with lines like, "VR will mean the democratization of human experience in the same way that the internet brought the democratization of data." When we got to the specifics, though, he was honest. "People can live that human experience, what it's like to be there, first hand… barring smell and taste and touch."

Three of the five human sensory inputs possible in VR, the exception being taste and touch. Groups like MLF and Tokyo University's Cyber Interface Lab are working on it, however, though they admit that they have a long way to go. 

"Touch is the next thing, it's easier than smell and taste," Milk told me. "Taste is a problem."

See the full lineup of Tribeca's VR Arcade here.

Related:

Meet the Curator Who Created a Museum in VR

Watch Björk Become a Virtual Reality Goddess in Her New "Notget VR" Music Video

Watching the Birth of a Star in Virtual Reality Is Interstellar Therapy

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